I served on the Durango School Board for nearly 8 years and have a solid understanding of the deep responsibility our community has to supporting public schools that are open…
In response to Mr. Skillen’s letter (Herald, Oct. 5) regarding The Code Rights Project, there are a few important points to clarify. The Code Rights Project has taken no position…
Shame on you, Durango Herald, for the headline, “High Country Cattle Auction brings top-notch stock and country charm to Southwest Colorado,” (Herald, Oct. 1). If you think for one minute…
I wonder if anti-LDS hate is ramping up once again in America. We have two recent signs it is: the BYU-Colorado football game chants (“F*** you, Mormons”); and the Michigan…
Being born and raised here, I take pride in calling this community my lifelong home. Over the years, I’ve watched our county grow, our needs expand, and our costs increase.…
What happened to Cindy Stein and her child should scare every parent in Durango (Herald, Mar. 26). While Cindy was fighting cancer, her child was pushed into gender transition without…
Charlie Kirk’s death was a tragedy. The outrage was warranted. Where was this administration’s outrage over the two students shot at Evergreen High School on the same day by a…
On Sept. 24, The New York Times reported that President Trump endorsed a “new civics effort with MAGA aligned groups.” A new civics education program led by the America First…
Disagreement has become division. No two-party system can fix what it has inadvertently caused. Economic hardship, poverty, cuts to health care and the burden undocumented immigration has placed on middle-lower…
My friends, Tamra Fenberg and Pearl Stegner, are running for the Durango School District’s Board of Education. Recently I learned there is a rumor going around Durango that both of…
Durango School District Board elections are approaching, with ballots arriving Oct. 14. Please cast your vote to re-elect our incumbents: Erika Brown, Rick Petersen and Andrea Parmenter. Their policies have…
Well, all you people who voted to elect Trump are getting exactly what you voted for. Trump, on his campaign, stated he would be a dictator on day one. That…
It is worth setting the record straight (Letters, Herald, Sept. 12). After all, propaganda is what’s allowed the holocaust in Gaza and the West Bank to start and continue for…
A common mindset I’ve encountered while speaking with longtime Durangoans and reading letters to the editor goes something like this: “I’ve lived here for 10, 20, or 30 years, and…
It has been 43 years since La Plata County last increased its sales tax. In that time, the county population has grown, costs have gone up and the responsibilities of…
As a longtime fan of the Durango Choral Society, I have watched Carol Thurman’s composition, “Rivers, Rails and Roots – A Sesquicentennial Suite,” become reality over the last three years.…
How do we identify an ICE agent? This is what we’ve learned. Well … they wear face masks. Originally, they were described as ski masks, easy to put on and…
Mr. Russ Smith (Herald, Sept. 17) and Mr. Jack Turner (Herald, July 27), and the Code Rights Project seem intent on gutting La Plata County’s land-use system so developers can…
For years, we were told to fear “global warming.” When our planet cooled, the slogan was rebranded as “climate change.” Meanwhile, the definition of “science” was bent to include computer…
I would like to thank those folks working and supporting our public lands. They have been going above and beyond the call of duty these last few months. I was…
The First Amendment guarantees Americans freedom of speech, religion and the press, “the right to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government to redress grievances.” The Trump administration is degrading…
Trump betrayed us. He promised to end inflation on “Day One.” Instead, prices have gone up on virtually everything since the day he took office. We are only beginning to…
Girls on the Run is not a running club, or a track team. With a unique curriculum focused on cultivating confidence, critical thinking skills, and healthy mental and physical habits,…
It was great to see hundreds of people show up at the vigil to honor Charlie Kirk. However, Sheriff Smith and Chief Current both grossly misread the audience. Christians gathered…
I’ve been meaning to write this for several weeks, and the photo of the crew painting stripes on the street got me off high center (Herald, Sept. 18). I want…
I recently wrote a letter to the Hillcrest Board of Directors asking for yearly membership and T-fee discounts anytime golfers, like myself, play who are over 80 years old and…
Who snowplows the roads to get you to the doctor’s office?Who protects you when you are threatened?Who helps your neighbor who has gotten laid off?Who helps low-income parents feed their…
The death of Charlie Kirk was tragic, especially because he was in the act of the exchange of ideas with student at a college. But now he’s a Christian nationalist…
Four years ago, we moved into our Hesperus home located where we can see the upper lift tower for Hesperus Ski. I quickly learned that it was the communities go-to…
I cannot believe I am living in America, my beloved country of 81 years. I am appalled at the creation of ICE, an organization of masked men, carrying no license…
